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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shorts are just a TikTok clone...

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is just a Vine clone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Which is funny because Vine failed to sufficiently monetize and shut down...

In any case the point is shorts weren't designed from the ground up as some way for YouTube to squeeze more ads in out of some "diabolical laboratory of Google." Shorts were designed to compete with an existing product.